Abstract:
A vehicular driving assistance system, via processing of image data captured by a forward-viewing camera of a vehicle, determines traffic lane marking information ahead of the vehicle. The vehicular driving assistance system determines reliability of the determined traffic lane marking information. A predictive sensor uses map data to predict the road ahead of the vehicle. Responsive to the determined reliability of the traffic lane marking information being greater than or equal to a threshold reliability level, an ADAS controller generates ADAS control signals based at least in part on (i) processing of image data captured by the forward-viewing camera and (ii) processing of radar data captured by a plurality of radar sensors. Responsive to the determined reliability of the traffic lane marking information being less than the threshold reliability level, the ADAS controller generates the ADAS control signals based at least in part on an output of the predictive sensor.
Abstract:
A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of surround view cameras disposed at a vehicle, an electronic control unit (ECU), and a video display screen disposed in the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle for displaying video images derived from image data captured by the surround view cameras. The vehicular vision system, responsive to determining an impending lane change of the equipped vehicle toward an adjacent traffic lane and responsive to processing at the ECU of image data captured by at least one of the surround view cameras of the plurality of surround view cameras, displays on the video display video images derived at least in part from image data captured by at least two of the side view cameras. The displayed video images include a portion of the adjacent traffic lane.
Abstract:
A vehicular sensing system includes a camera and a radar sensor disposed at a vehicle. The system, responsive to processing of radar data captured by the radar sensor, determines an edge of a road the vehicle is traveling along. Responsive to processing of image data captured by the camera, location of a lane marking of the road is determined. As the vehicle travels along the road, the system, responsive to failing to determine the location of the lane marking of the road via processing of the image data captured by the camera, predicts the location of the lane marking of the road based on the radar data. The vehicle is controlled based in part on the predicted location of the lane marking of the road.
Abstract:
A vehicular navigation system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) having electronic circuitry and associated software. The ECU is operable to determine routes for a vehicle equipped with the vehicular navigation system based at least in part on map data. The ECU, to route the vehicle from a starting location to an ending location, determines one or more candidate routes from the starting location to the ending location. For each determined candidate route, the ECU determines a respective energy efficiency for travel of the vehicle along the respective determined candidate route based at least in part on environmental temperature data for at least one location along the respective determined candidate route. The ECU selects one of the determined candidate routes for the vehicle to travel along based on the determined respective energy efficiency for travel of the vehicle along each determined candidate route.
Abstract:
A vehicular parking assist system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The vehicular parking assist system, via processing of captured sensor data, and while the vehicle is conducting a parking maneuver, detects an object and tracks location of the detected object relative to the vehicle until the detected object leaves a field of sensing of the at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors. The system, after the detected object leaves the field of sensing of the at least one sensor, predicts location of the detected object relative to the vehicle. The system, upon completion of the parking maneuver, determines that the detected object is hazardous based on the predicted location of the detected object relative to the vehicle, and responsive to determining that the detected object is hazardous, restricts opening of a door of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A driving assistance system includes a front camera module (FCM). The system, responsive to processing captured image data from the FCM, generates FCM control signals. The system includes a plurality of vehicle sensors capturing sensor data and an advanced driving-assistance system (ADAS) controller. The ADAS controller, responsive to processing the sensor data, generates ADAS control signals. The ADAS controller generates an ADAS status signal indicating a reliability of the generated ADAS control signals. With the ADAS status signal indicating the reliability of the generated ADAS control signals is at or above a threshold ADAS reliability level, the system controls the vehicle using the ADAS control signal and, responsive to determining that the ADAS status signal indicates that the reliability of the generated ADAS control signals is below the threshold, switches from controlling the vehicle based on the ADAS control signals to controlling the vehicle based on the FCM control signals.
Abstract:
A vehicular alert system includes at least one sensor disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The at least one sensor captures sensor data. Electronic circuitry of an electronic control unit includes a processor for processing sensor data captured by the at least one sensor to detect presence of objects viewed by the at least one sensor. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining a likelihood that the vehicle is parking, tracks a position of a detected object until the object leaves a field of sensing of the sensor. The vehicular alert system predicts a position of the object relative to the vehicle and determines the object is a hazard based on the predicted position. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining that the detected object is a hazard, alerts an occupant of the vehicle of the detected object.
Abstract:
A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at an in-cabin surface of a vehicle windshield, which includes a blackout region and a light-transmitting window through the blackout region. The camera views through the windshield at the light-transmitting window. The field of view of the camera encompasses at least part of the blackout region around the light-transmitting window, such that some of the photosensing elements do not receive light that passes through the light-transmitting window. A control processes image data captured by the camera to provide a dewarped image and does not use some of the photosensing elements of the camera when providing the dewarped image. The light-transmitting window of the blackout region is sized and shaped such that the photosensing elements that are not used by the control in dewarping the image are the same photosensing elements that do not receive light that passes through the light-transmitting window.
Abstract:
A vision system of a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a vehicle windshield and viewing through the windshield and exterior of the vehicle. A light-absorbing hiding layer is established at the windshield at an area at which the camera is disposed and includes an portion established therethrough, with the portion aligned with the camera such that the camera views through the windshield via the portion. The portion comprises a wider central region and narrower upper and lower regions. The wider central region of the portion provides a wide angle field of view of the camera at a region ahead of the vehicle and the narrower lower region of the portion reduces the field of view at regions near to and sidewards from the front of the vehicle. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera for a machine vision function or driver assistance system.